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Matplotlib for Python Developers

You're reading from   Matplotlib for Python Developers Python developers who want to learn Matplotlib need look no further. This book covers it all with a practical approach including lots of code and images. Take this chance to learn 2D plotting through real-world examples.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2009
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781847197900
Length 308 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Matplotlib for Python Developers
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
1. Preface
1. Introduction to Matplotlib FREE CHAPTER 2. Getting Started with Matplotlib 3. Decorate Graphs with Plot Styles and Types 4. Advanced Matplotlib 5. Embedding Matplotlib in GTK+ 6. Embedding Matplotlib in Qt 4 7. Embedding Matplotlib in wxWidgets 8. Matplotlib for the Web 9. Matplotlib in the Real World

Embedding Matplotlib in a GUI made with Qt Designer


For simple examples, designing the GUI in the Python code can be good enough, but for more complex applications, this solution does not scale.

There are some tools to help you design the GUI for Qt, and one of the most commonly used is Qt Designer.

Similar to Glade, we can design the user interface part of the application using on-screen form and drag-and-drop interface. Then we can connect the widgets with the backend code, where we develop the logic of the application.

The core of our example application will be plotting the frequencies of occurrences of letters in a text file: we will count the number of times each letter of the English alphabet appears in a given file and then plot this information in a bar graph.

First, we will show how to design our GUI with Qt Designer, in particular, how to create a custom Matplotlib widget managed by an external Python source file. Then, we will convert that GUI into a Python code that we can use...

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